Immanuel Kant Quote

The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.

Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the Centenary of Its First Publication (ed. 1915)